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10 November 2022 nutritionDay worldwide
nutritionDay worldwide 10 November 2022nutritionDay: the largest international database on nutrition risk and care in healthcare facilities
nutritionDay (nDay) is a worldwide initiative aiming to raise awareness on disease-related malnutrition and nutritional care processes currently in use in hospital wards, intensive care units and nursing homes facilities. The nutritionDay audit was founded in 2006 by experts of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) and of the Medical University of Vienna and it has been carried on every year as a one-day cross-sectional audit in November. To date, the project has collected data from more than 281,000 patients and residents in over 71 countries worldwide.
The audit aims to serve as a tool to assess the prevalence of malnutrition in the participating units and to collect data on patients’ characteristics, malnutrition risk factorsand quality indicators of nutritional care. Annual participation to nutritionDay allows benchmarking and annual monitoring of nutrition care structures and processes in the unit.
Participation to the audit is easy and free of charge. All documents and information for participation are downloadable from the nutritionDay website.
The nutritionDay questionnaires
The audit is based on questionnaires specifically developed through the years for four different settings hospital wards,oncology wards,ICU and nursing homes. Hospital questionnaires were updated in 2016 to include quality indicators of nutrition care. In 2018, the Hospital Express version was launched. This is a compact form of the original hospital questionnaires representing only short assessment of selected aspects of nutrition care in the unit. No prior knowledge is needed to fill out the questionnaires.
Questionnaires systematically record data about patient food intake, weight loss and nutritional support, as well as other factors related to the facility, staff and current clinical practices . In the year 2020, specific questions on COVID-19 have also been included in the questionnaires. Outcome of patients recruited on nutritionDay is collected 30, 60 or 180 days after nDay respectively for the category Hospital, ICU and Nursing Homes.
The audit is patient-centeredas patients themselves are asked to respond to an easy set of questions about their food intake, habits and health status. Information are also collected by the unit healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, dietitians) which give clinical feedback on the health status of the same patients. Questionnaire are available in more than 30 languages to be able to include the majority of the patients in the unit.
The nutritionDay unit reports for benchmarking
Upon participation, units receive a comprehensive graphical report on their unit data with regional and worldwide comparison to units from the same specialty. Repeated participation allows benchmarking as well as monitoring of the nutrition care and its structure elements in the unit. Units are thus empowered, by available data, to determine local needs, to bring attention to specific area which need changes as well as to allow unit data comparison at a local and international level. Only for hospital category nutritionDay provides National Reports which show aggregated results from all participating units in a country in a year.
The nutritionDay worldwide research
The large nDay database, with data from 281000 patients and residents, allows national and international analysis on nutrition care elements and processes in hospitalized patients and nursing homes residents. Large data analysis results, published in more than 40 peer-reviewed publications highlight the importance of monitoring major risk factors associated to malnutrition and poor outcome, point out to current practices and existing quality indicators of nutrition care and its association with possible gaps in the management of patients who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition.
Researchers interested in carrying on a research project using nutritionDay data are welcome to submit a research proposal in English to the nDay scientific Board.
Info and contacts
Register here for participating to nutritionDay, for project information take a look to the comprehensive presentation for Healthcare professionals and to the easy steps to participate.
www.nutritionDay.org office@nutritionDay.org
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nutritionDay publications
- Böhne SEJ, Hiesmayr M, Sulz I, Tarantino S, Wirth R, Volkert D. Recent and current low food intake - prevalence and associated factors in hospital patients from different medical specialities. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2022 Apr 11. doi: 10.1038/s41430-022-01129-y. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35411028.
- Silvia Tarantino, Michael Hiesmayr, Isabella Sulz, nutritionDay Worldwide Annual Report 2019, Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, 2022, ISSN 2405 -4577, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnesp.2022.01.001
- Kiss N, Hiesmayr M, Sulz I, Bauer P, Heinze G, Mouhieddine M, Schuh C, Tarantino S, Simon J. Predicting Hospital Length of Stay at Admission Using Global and Country-Specific Competing Risk Analysis of Structural, Patient, and Nutrition-Related Data from nutritionDay 2007-2015. Nutrients. 2021 Nov 16;13(11):4111. doi: 10.3390/nu13114111. PMID: 34836366; PMCID: PMC8624242.
- Timing of parenteral nutrition in ICU patients: a transatlantic controversy. Veraar C, Geilen J, Fischer A, Sulz I, Tarantino S, Mouhieddine M, Mora B, Schuh C, Singer P, Hiesmayr MJ Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnesp.2021.08.007.
- Predictors of incident malnutrition: a nutritionDay analysis in 11,923 nursing home residents. Torbahn G, Sulz I, Großhauser F, Hiesmayr MJ, Kiesswetter E, Schindler K, Sieber CC, Visser M, Weber J, Volkert D. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2021 Jul 8. doi: 10.1038/s41430-021-00964-9. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34239065.
- Are traditional screening tools adequate for monitoring the nutrition risk of in-hospital patients? An analysis of the nutritionDay database. Cardenas D, Bermúdez C, Pérez A, Diaz G, Cortes LY, Contreras CP, Pinzón-Espitia OL, Gómez G, González MC, Fantin R, Gutierrez J, Sulz I, Tarantino S, Hiesmayr M. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2021 Feb 7. doi: 10.1002/jpen.2085. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33554364
- Pearcy J, Agarwal E, Isenring E, Somani A, Wright C, Shankar B. Ward-based nutrition care practices and a snapshot of patient care: Results from nutritionDay in the ICU. Clin Nutr ESPEN. 2021 Feb; 41:340-345. doi:10.1016/j.clnesp.2020.10.022. Epub 2020 Nov 17. PMID: 33487287.
- Ostrowska J, Sulz I, Tarantino S, Hiesmayr M, Szostak-Węgierek D. Hospital Malnutrition, Nutritional Risk Factors, and Elements of Nutritional Care in Europe: Comparison of Polish Results with All European Countries Participating in the nDay Survey. Nutrients. 2021 Jan 18;13(1):E263. doi: 10.3390/nu13010263. PMID: 33477640.
- Wright C, Shankar B, Marshall S, Pearcy J, Somani A, Agarwal E. Prevalence of malnutrition risk and poor food intake in older adults in Indian hospitals: A prospective observational nutritionDay study with novel mapping of malnutrition risk to the Malnutrition Screening Tool. Nutr Diet. 2020 Sep 28. doi: 10.1111/1747-0080.12641. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32985081.
- Moick S, Hiesmayr M, Mouhieddine M, Kiss N, Bauer P, Sulz I, Singer P, Simon J. Reducing the knowledge to action gap in hospital nutrition care – Developing and implementing nutritionDay 2.0. Clin Nutr. 2020 Jul 2:S0261-5614(20)30332-0. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2020.06.021. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32747205.
- Kontogianni MD, Poulia KA, Bersimis F, Sulz I, Schindler K, Hiesmayr M, Chourdakis M. Exploring factors influencing dietary intake during hospitalization: Results from analyzing nutritionDay's database (2006-2013). Clin Nutr ESPEN. 2020 Aug;38:263-270. doi: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2020.04.001. Epub 2020 Apr 25. PMID: 32690167.
- Cardenas D, Bermúdez C, Pérez A, Diaz G, Cortes LY, Contreras CP, Pinzón- Espitia OL, Gomez G, Gonzalez MC, Fantin R, Gutierrez J, Sulz I, Moick S, Tarantino S, Hiesmayr M. Nutritional risk is associated with an increase of in- hospital mortality and a reduction of being discharged home: Results of the 2009-2015 nutritionDay survey. Clin Nutr ESPEN. 2020 Aug;38:138-145. doi: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2020.05.014. Epub 2020 Jun 25. PMID: 32690148.
- Hiesmayr M, Tarantino S, Moick S, Laviano A, Sulz I, Mouhieddine M, Schuh C, Volkert D, Simon J, Schindler K. Hospital Malnutrition, a Call for Political Action: A Public Health and NutritionDay Perspective. J Clin Med. 2019 Nov 22;8(12):2048. doi: 10.3390/jcm8122048. PMID: 31766583; PMCID: PMC6947230.
- Barazzoni R, Sulz I, Schindler K, Bischoff SC, Gortan Cappellari G, Hiesmayr M; nutritionDay Research Group. A negative impact of recent weight loss on in-hospital mortality is not modified by overweight and obesity. Clin Nutr. 2020 Aug;39(8):2510-2516. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2019.11.007. Epub 2019 Nov 12. PMID: 31761390.
- Rattanachaiwong S, Warodomwichit D, Yamwong P, Keawtanom S, Hiesmayr M, Sulz I, Singer P. Characteristics of hospitalized patients prescribed oral nutrition supplements in Thailand: A cross-sectional nutrition day survey. Clin Nutr ESPEN. 2019 Oct;33:294-300. doi: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2019.05.012. Epub 2019 Jun 6. PMID: 31451271.
- Sauer AC, Goates S, Malone A, Mogensen KM, Gewirtz G, Sulz I, Moick S, Laviano A, Hiesmayr M. Prevalence of Malnutrition Risk and the Impact of Nutrition Risk on Hospital Outcomes: Results From nutritionDay in the U.S. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2019 Sep;43(7):918-926. doi: 10.1002/jpen.1499. Epub 2019 Jan 22. PMID: 30666659.
- Wirth R, Pourhassan M, Streicher M, Hiesmayr M, Schindler K, Sieber CC, Volkert D. The Impact of Dysphagia on Mortality of Nursing Home Residents: Results From the nutritionDay Project. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2018 Sep;19(9):775-778. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2018.03.016. Epub 2018 May 31. PMID:29778638.
- Sun H, Zhang L, Zhang P, Yu J, Kang W, Guo S, Chen W, Li X, Wang S, Chen L, Wu J, Tian Z, Wu X, Liu X, Liu Y, Wang X. A comprehensive nutritional survey of hospitalized patients: Results from nutritionDay 2016 in China. PLoS One. 2018 Mar 22;13(3):e0194312. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194312. PMID: 29566016;
- Van der Werf A, Arthey K, Hiesmayr M, Sulz I, Schindler K, Laviano A, Langius J, de van der Schueren M. The determinants of reduced dietary intake in hospitalised colorectal cancer patients. Support Care Cancer. 2018 Jun;26(6):2039-2047. doi: 10.1007/s00520-018-4044-1. Epub 2018 Jan 19. PMID: 29352452; PMCID: PMC5919993.
- Henriksen C, Gjelstad IM, Nilssen H, Blomhoff R. A low proportion of malnourished patients receive nutrition treatment - results from nutritionDay. Food Nutr Res. 2017 Oct 25;61(1):1391667. doi: 10.1080/16546628.2017.1391667. PMID: 29151831; PMCID: PMC5678450.
- Streicher M, Wirth R, Schindler K, Sieber CC, Hiesmayr M, Volkert D. Dysphagia in Nursing Homes-Results From the NutritionDay Project. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2018 Feb;19(2):141-147.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2017.08.015. Epub 2017 Oct 10. PMID: 29030310.
- Schindler K, Pichard C, Sulz I, Volkert D, Streicher M, Singer P, Ljungqvist O, Van Gossum A, Bauer P, Hiesmayr M. nutritionDay: 10 years of growth. Clin Nutr. 2017 Oct;36(5):1207-1214. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2016.11.004. Epub 2016 Nov11. PMID: 27916337.
- Zheng H, Huang Y, Shi Y, Chen W, Yu J, Wang X. Nutrition Status, Nutrition Support Therapy, and Food Intake are Related to Prolonged Hospital Stays in China: Results from the NutritionDay 2015 Survey. Ann Nutr Metab. 2016;69(3-4):215-225. doi: 10.1159/000451063. Epub 2016 Nov 29. PMID: 27894108.
- Schindler K, Themessl-Huber M, Hiesmayr M, Kosak S, Lainscak M, Laviano A, Ljungqvist O, Mouhieddine M, Schneider S, de van der Schueren M, Schütz T, Schuh C, Singer P, Bauer P, Pichard C. To eat or not to eat? Indicators for reduced food intake in 91,245 patients hospitalized on nutritionDays 2006-2014 in 56 countries worldwide: a descriptive analysis. Am J Clin Nutr. 2016 Nov;104(5):1393-1402. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.116.137125. Epub 2016 Oct 12. PMID: 27733401.
- Streicher M, Themessl-Huber M, Schindler K, Sieber CC, Hiesmayr M, Volkert D. nutritionDay in Nursing Homes-The Association of Nutritional Intake and Nutritional Interventions with 6-Month Mortality in Malnourished Residents. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2017 Feb 1;18(2):162-168. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2016.08.021. Epub 2016 Oct 11. PMID: 27742584.
- Streicher M, Themessl-Huber M, Schindler K, Sieber CC, Hiesmayr M, Volkert D. Who receives oral nutritional supplements in nursing homes? Results from the nutritionDay project. Clin Nutr. 2017 Oct;36(5):1360-1371. doi:10.1016/j.clnu.2016.09.005. Epub 2016 Sep 17. PMID: 27692932.
- Bendavid I, Singer P, Theilla M, Themessl-Huber M, Sulz I, Mouhieddine M, Schuh C, Mora B, Hiesmayr M. NutritionDay ICU: A 7 year worldwide prevalence study of nutrition practice in intensive care. Clin Nutr. 2017 Aug;36(4):1122-1129. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2016.07.012. Epub 2016 Aug 9. PMID:27637833.
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10th ESPEN SYMPOSIUM - Nutrition for the older adult
10th ESPEN SYMPOSIUM
Nutrition for the older adult
Current concepts
Istanbul, Türkiye - December 3-4, 2023
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12th Annual Salford ESPEN-endorsed Workshop on Acute and Chronic Intestinal Failure
12th Annual Salford ESPEN-endorsed Workshop on Acute and Chronic Intestinal Failure
The 12th Annual ESPEN Intestinal Failure Workshop will take place as in-person event next year on the 22nd and 23rd of March 2024. This will involve practical sessions including wound and catheter care, as well as ward-rounds and case discussions on the National Reference Intestinal Failure Unit in Salford, U.K.
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2 billion adults overweight, 600 million obese and 462 million malnourished
WHO and ESPEN join forces
2 billion adults overweight, 600 million obese and 462 million malnourished... contributing to 60% of cardiovasc death and 35% tumor death. In hospital, you have a 35% chance of 'disease-related' malnutrition. Dr Joao Breda and Dr. Kremlin Wickramasinghe from World Health Organization (WHO) join our battle in Nice.
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2018 MNI Grant
2018 MNI Grant
The MNI grant rewards national initiatives or research projects for Optimal Nutritional Care. The objective is to support and/or inspire high quality initiatives. For more information check the following webpage: http://medicalnutritionindustry.com/grant/mni-grant/
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2022 MNI Grant
2022 MNI Grant
MNI Award of €30,000 to planned national initiatives or research projects for Optimal Nutritional Care
The MNI grant rewards national initiatives or research projects for Optimal Nutritional Care. The objective is to support and/or inspire high-quality initiatives.
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25th ESPEN course of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care held in Croatia
25th ESPEN course of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care held in Croatia
Croatia was the host of the 25th ESPEN course in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic care that was held in Zagreb, from the 5th until the 10th of October 2018. The course, that was organized by the Croatian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, gathered participants from all over the world. The global, multiethnic and mulitcultural character of the course, as its quality and academic excellence, was confirmed by bringing together 100 participants from 26 countries (Hungary, Thailand, Latvia, Austria, Italy, South Korea, Egypt, India, Poland, Finland, Slovenia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Cyprus, France, Estonia and Croatia) and lecturers from 13 countries (France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Poland, Latvia, Austria, Serbia, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Slovenia and Croatia).The aforementioned is a clear acknowledgement of the growing interest in clinical nutrition and also the growing popularity of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism.
During the course the participants had the opportunity to enhance their knowledge by listening to more than 25 concise lectures of latest scientific data regarding clinical nutrition and metabolic care in every day practice. Furthermore, they participated in LLL courses focused on oral and enteral nutrition in adults and the approach to parenteral nutrition.
The quality of the ESPEN course is also confirmedthrough various workshops, case presentations and discussions held by both lecturers and participant ensuring active, intellectually rich participation by both parties.In addition, the added value of the course is that it provides an opportunity for participants and lecturers to share expertise and cross-fertilise ideas. Lastly, by educating MDs, nutritionists, pharmasists and continuously raising awareness on the importance of clinical nutrition and metabolic care the ESPEN courseis ensuring thekeypreconditionsfor optimal nutritional care for patients all over the world.
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The 25th ESPEN course in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic care
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All participants and lecturers of the 25th ESPEN course
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The 25th ESPEN course organizing committee
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LLL Workshop on acute pancreatitis
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26th ESPEN Course of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care held in Slovenia
26th ESPEN Course of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care held in SloveniaAIMS
• To provide clinically relevant information about clinical nutrition and metabolism
• To improve knowledge about classification of clinical nutrition concepts and how to introduce the process of nutritional care in clinical work
• To introduce the LLL programeclick here for more information
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27th ESPEN Course
ESPEN Course in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism
Hradec Králové, Czech Republic 9th to 15th October, 2022
NEW Deadline for the applications is now September 24, 2022 
Clinical nutrition and intensive metabolic care is not a separate medical discipline, but combines all fields of clinical medicine in association with basic science. The progress in the clinical and scientific fields of clinical nutrition is enormous and the knowledge is more and more important that it has been in the past. The combination of basic science and its implementation in practice is fascinating.
ESPEN places great emphasis on educating the younger generation of doctors, and the annual interactive courses have become very popular. We hope that the information provided to you in this course of clinical nutrition will add new qualities to your work and give you more satisfaction in your everyday practice.
You have a unique opportunity to meet and discuss with top experts in clinical nutrition and intensive metabolic care in an inspiring and intellectual environment, as well as to exchange your experience, ideas and plans with the like-minded colleagues.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Hradec Kralove.
Pavel Tesinsky
President, Czech Society of Clinical Nutrition and Intensive Metabolic CareView 27th ESPEN Course Flyer here (PDF)
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45th ESPEN Congress Announcement
45th ESPEN Congress Announcement
Lyon France, 11-14 September 2023
DEAR COLLEAGUES,
On behalf of the French-Speaking Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (SFNCM), we would like to invite you to the 45th ESPEN Congress 2023 which will be held for the fourth time in France and for the first time in Lyon.We would like to welcome all ESPEN delegates to the magnificent city of Lyon. Lyon is the second French city and is ideally located at the crossroads of Europe. You will enjoy discovering the city centre, the suroundings and the parks of this town as well as its two rivers (the Rhône and the Saône). Lyon is listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Register thanks to its Roman ruins and Renaissance buildings. Lyon is a major city for mixing culture and art with many museums and festivals. Lyon is also the city of gastronomy and is famous all over the world for the art of fine dining. Chef Paul Bocuse was one of the world-famous chefs who put Lyon on the culinary map. In Lyon, you can discover twenty one Michelin starred restaurants, but also the famous “Bouchon Lyonnais” which are very popular restaurants that must be tested and
whose food must be tasted. Next to the Convention Center, the city park ‘Parc de la Tête d’Or’ and the Rhône River will offer you the possibility to take a walk or a run after Congress sessions.
Thanks to all ESPEN Committee members, we are happy to offer you an attractive program with new advances in the fields of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism but without forgetting education to improve our practice. Live healthY with Optimal Nutrition was our guiding thread to create this program.
We are convinced that the ESPEN 2023 programme offers a great opportunity for physicians, dietitians, pharmacists, nutritionists, scientists, nurses, and everyone involved in the field of nutrition and metabolism to meet and discuss cutting-edge science in an informal atmosphere, stimulate new collaborations and consolidate existing close partnerships.We will be very happy to see you in Lyon in 2023!
Cécile Chambrier
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6th ESPEN Symposium Perioperative Nutrition - Nottingham, UK
6th ESPEN Symposium Perioperative Nutrition - Nottingham, UK
A very successful ESPEN Symposium united people from 12 countries who joined us for a fantastic meeting with focus on the Scientific basis of Perioperative Nutrition’
Join us next time!
109 people from 12 countries joined us for a fantastic meeting with focus on the Scientific basis of Perioperative Nutrition.
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7th ESPEN Symposium 'How to best assess energy requirements?'
7th ESPEN Symposium 'How to best assess energy requirements?' celebrating 100 years of the Harris Benedict Equation click here for more information
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8th ESPEN Symposium
The ESPEN Symposium goes virtual!
April 18, 2021
LLL Course
on NUTRITION IN OBESITYApril 18 and 19, 2021
SymposiumDue to the ongoing pandemic situation, ESPEN has decided to transform the 8th ESPEN Symposium on Obesity and malnutrition, previously planned to be held in Istanbul, in a fully VIRTUAL EVENT. The content has been enhanced and updated with the important interactions between obesity and COVID-19. Save the date and plan to join this web Symposium!
TOPICS
• Weight control, central regulation and changes in body composition
• Sarcopenia, sarcopenic obesity and malnutrition
• New approaches in obesity management
• Bariatric surgery and outcomes
• Obesity, chronic diseases and nutritional aspects
• Covid-19, obesity and nutrition
To re-visit the sessions in the ESPEN member section, become an ESPEN member.
ORGANIZING SECRETARIAT
Noema srl unipersonale
Via Orefici 4 - 40124 Bologna (Italy)
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9th ESPEN Symposium - November 7-8, 2022
9th ESPEN Symposium to be held virtually on November 7-8, 2022The Science of Micronutrients in nutritional care
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ACCN Course “Basic Course in Clinical Nutrition”
After three years ACCN Course “Basic Course in Clinical Nutrition” is back. The 15th ACCN
15th ACCN Course of Clinical Nutrition
Course will be held in Belgrade, Serbia from 24-26 March 2023. The programe and information
is available here.
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Application for Associate Editorship of Clinical Nutrition
Application for Associate Editorship of Clinical NutritionThe Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Nutrition, Prof. NEP Deutz, is pleased to announce that the call for Applications for Associate Editorship of Clinical Nutrition is open.
The closing date for applications is 30 April 2021.
Application form can be downloaded here
A decision will be made by the end of June 2021!
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Associate Editors Clinical Nutrition Journal
Associate Editors Clinical Nutrition Journal
Dear members of ESPEN.
Our journals, Clinical Nutrition and Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, are recruiting new associate editors.
If you think your profile is suitable for the position, we are waiting for you! Please send completed application by email to Professor NEP Deutz, Editor-in-Chief, Clinical Nutrition (nep.deutz@ctral.org) .
Deadline April 30th, 2022.
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Call for Papers - COVID and Nutrition
Call for Papers - COVID and Nutrition
IMPORTANT UPDATEDear Colleagues,
at ESPEN and WHO/Europe we are very grateful for your high interest in this call, and for the many submissions received. We are confident this will significantly enhance evidence-based knowledge in the crucial field of nutrition for COVID-19 patients. As unfortunately the pandemic is still strongly affecting many parts of the world, we have decided to EXTEND THE DEADLINE for paper submission until May 1st 2021. We therefore further encourage you to collect your data on all aspects of nutrition in COVID-19 patients, as previously described, and to consider submitting them to Clinical Nutrition.
COVID-19 has posed huge healthcare, social and economic challenges worldwide during the past few months. Clinical outcome is poorer in several patient groups at risk for malnutrition. Persons with obesity are also at higher clinical risk. Nutritional care is therefore of utmost relevance in all COVID-19 patients and may play an important role also in disease prevention. Despite the relevance of nutritional research in COVID-19, available evidence is extremely limited. From over 75.000 publications on COVID-19 available in PubMed, only 1200 are retrieved when adding nutrition in the search, and just 169 when malnutrition is used as key-word.
Strengthening the evidence on the potential key role of nutritional status and nutritional care in COVID-19 is therefore an unmet clinical need and an urgent priority. ESPEN and World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) have discussed this topic and agreed to open a call for papers on nutritional status and nutritional care in COVID-19 patients, to be hosted in the ESPEN Journals Clinical Nutrition and Clinical Nutrition ESPEN. The call will be guest-edited by ESPEN and WHO/Europe officers.
Submissions are encouraged on various aspects of nutrition and COVID-19 in all clinical settings (home-care, hospital wards, Intensive Care Unit - ICU) with special priority for (but not limited to):
- Malnutrition risk and diagnosis in COVID-19 patient cohorts and their impact on clinical outcome.
- Special patient groups: older adults; chronic diseases including renal disease, heart disease, liver disease, cancer, diabetes and others; ICU.
- Medical nutrition treatment in COVID-19 patients and its impact on clinical outcomes in all clinical settings.
- Micronutrients status in COVID-19 patients and their impact on risk of infection and COVID-19 clinical outcome.
- Obesity and malnutrition in COVID-19 and their impact on outcome.
- Organization of nutritional assessment and nutritional care in all clinical settings to face the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Impact on nutrition-related policies during the COVID-10 pandemic including social and economic determinants.All papers must be submitted to Clinical Nutrition with the article type: COVID-19 and if eligible for publication will be offered publication on either Clinical Nutrition or Clinical Nutrition ESPEN based on priority.
We hope and trust that this initiative will contribute to collect much-needed evidence on this very important but unfortunately largely neglected topic, with the ultimate goal to provide strong evidence for implementation of optimal nutritional care for COVID-19 patients and to continue nutrition promotion during the pandemic to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2.
Rocco Barazzoni
ESPEN ChairmanCristina Cuerda
ESPEN SecretaryStephane Schneider
ESPEN TreasurerMick Deutz
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Clinical Nutrition
ESPEN is very happy to announce the continuing growth of the impact factor of Clinical Nutrition, now reaching a fantastic 7,32 for 2020.
We are very grateful to the Editor-in-chief, and the whole editorial board, for their efforts that keep leading our Society to higher grounds and top scientific level.
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Combating childhood obesity in Europe and beyond - virtual public webinar
Combating childhood obesity in Europe and beyond - virtual public webinar
On Tuesday 16th November (13.00-13.30 CET time/ 14:00-15:30 Moscow time), the WHO European Office for Prevention and Control of NCDs is hosting a virtual public webinar for the launch of 12 articles that analyse and explain COSI surveillance data gathered over more than 10 years in over 40 Member States. The WHO articles are also published as a special supplement in the Obesity Reviews journal. The virtual webinar will provide insights into the drivers of childhood obesity coming from data collected through the Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) and include a panel discussion to discuss the importance of data surveillance networks – such as COSI - from a policy and governmental perspective.
